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pyryt··on What kinds of bugs does AI generate?
Good question. We don't collect the 'what lead to this code' data, such as agent traces, so I can't say for sure.

From my own experience, I would attribute most of bugs that I write to the agent not considering one of the many constraints it should consider. This could be it assuming a different shape of data, or not browsing the codebase thoroughly enough at some point during its work and missing a parallel, or it not testing an edge case because it didn't think of it, and so on.

So, I would place this more under the latter, 'missing requirements / details', bucket. But its not clear to me that I should be giving the requirements as a prompt. Similarly to a good engineer, an ideal agent would spend a good amount of time understanding all the requirements before completing work. This could include browsing the codebase more extensively, running more tests, asking me for details it cannot find, and so on.

pyryt··on What kinds of bugs does AI generate?
Author here. In short:

- We launched an AI bug scanner 6 months ago. We wanted to know what the bugs that get fixed have in common.

- We clustered 1,000 bugs from 99 codebases and grouped them by failure mechanism.

- 21 recurring mechanisms cover 70% of the bugs. These same mistakes show up again and again in completely unrelated products. We seem to be writing similar bugs over and over again with agents.

- A common denominator is silence. Bugs that make it to production today are not easily ‘legible’. They don’t crash, they pass CI, they look fine. You don’t see them unless you look for them.

If you’d like to know anything else about these bugs, let us know. Happy to analyze the dataset further.

pyryt··on Claude Integrations
I would love to do this on my codebase after every commit
pyryt··on Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Decomposition
Some names are just too tempting https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02672
pyryt··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
This looks promising! Does any LLM understand Instantdb yet?
pyryt··on Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years
For comparison, manslaughter average sentence in Finland seems to be around 9.5 yrs
pyryt··on Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty
You can get the ball off the ground if you turn your phone upside down. Then you can just sort of fly over the places where you'd normally fall. Takes maybe a minute or two to complete all the levels.
pyryt··on I'm an engineer that needs to sell my services. Any good books on sales?
Ive enjoyed the classical sales books like SPIN selling, Challenger sale, Fanatical prospecting, The Psychology of Selling.
pyryt··on Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
Has anyone experimented with integrating real-time lipsync into a low-latency audio bot? I saw some demos with d-id but their pricing was closer to $1/minute which makes it rather prohibitive
pyryt··on Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
Interesting project, thanks for sharing
pyryt··on Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
Knowing when to speak is actually a prediction task in itself. See eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10874

Would be indeed great to get something like this integrated with whisper, LLM and TTS

pyryt··on Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice
Do you have use case demo videos somewhere? Would be great to see this in action
pyryt··on Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
Looks neat! Something very similar here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260140
pyryt··on Ask HN: When can I buy a robot that tidies my home?
Thank you! I had not come across this before
pyryt··on Find a good available .com domain
Would the same process work for other tlds?
pyryt··on How Long Can We Live?
Medicine still has a long way to go. I wish there were way more studies exploring the fundamentals of aging processes vs unproven miracle drugs
pyryt··on How Long Can We Live?
Yep, retrofitting can be hard. But if you figure it out for babies, Im not sure why you couldnt ultimately use the same ideas to also start changing genome of existing bodies. Obviously, there are more cells to change. But at least you dont have to wait as long to see the effect.
pyryt··on Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
they seem to also think that this fasting might be helpful for covid response
pyryt··on The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
It could be. Otoh, if you were able to have less workers on the job, avoid having to repave entire streets, and avoid having to wait for 6 months to get started... youd think itd be worth it
pyryt··on The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
There's probably a good explanation, but let me ask the question: why do we need to have men cutting hard road surfaces?

If a city extends their subway network, they dont demolish all buildings on top, lay the tracks, and then rebuild. They do it without any major interference to the surface. Similarly for mountain tunnels, you dont start by demolishing a mile of rock. We just dig the tunnel.

Couldn't someone invent a robot to dig fibre tunnels? Then we wouldnt need to bother any shop owners or neighbours with noise and inconvenience?

pyryt··on A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study
Do I understand correctly that they basically: 1. find the subpart of your brain that causes you to be depressed 2. use TMS to essentially block that region from being so active ?

Wonder if you could use this one day also for the regions that cause me to e.g. procrastinate...

pyryt··on Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide
Data pretty badly wrong. Finnish currency was correct maybe 20 years ago.